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The festival's 'man in a white hat'
Forest Ranger Doug Chassereau helps all aspects of annual event
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Forest Ranger Doug Chassereau talks with festival goers at the turpentine still during the 2009 Catface Turpentine Festival.
Like the Lone Ranger, Forest Ranger Doug Chassereau wears a white hat, but a lot of people can't see it. Leaders of the Portal Heritage Society said have seen it plainly and frequently because Society members say he has ridden to the rescue of the Catface Country Turpentine Festival so many times. When the still to process a charge of gum (raw pine tar) is fired Saturday on the first day of the 2010 festival, he will have made his mark on every part of the still before the furnace is lit.
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